(Awake 30 years of the twelfth lunar month), February 10, 1755, the death of French bourgeois Enlightenment thinker and jurist Montesquieu.


Montesquieu's death "target =" _blank "> Montesquieu (1689-1755), French jurist, the bourgeois Enlightenment thinkers. born near Bordeaux, France, January 1689 18 Rab Reiter, an aristocratic family.
1716 passage of the Baron title, and served as the office of the President of the Court in Bordeaux.
1726 moved to Paris in 1728 the French Academy of Sciences, but also of three years traveling in Europe Zhu depth understanding and study of the country on the national political and legal state system, customs and people (TodayinHistory.cn)
1734, his Rome Rise and Fall of the reasons' publishing sensation throughout Europe.
1748 year, he published "Spirit of the Law" (also translated as "France and Italy") In this article, he believes the decision to the spirit of the law and the law is crucial for each country and to ensure the rule of law means "separation of powers", namely the legislative, executive and judicial powers belonging to three different state organs, the three mutual restraint, balance of power. "separation of powers" for the end of the 18th century, the United States and French Constitution a significant impact on the formulation of February 10, 2011 became the bourgeois political system and the basic principles of legislative ideas.
1755 Montesquieu illness died in Paris at the age of 66.
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